The Perpetual Race Of Achilles And The Tortoise

Jorge Luis Borges

The perpetual race of Achilles and the tortoise -- The duration of Hell -- A defense of Basilides the False -- The translators of The thousand and one nights -- The labyrinths of the detective story and Chesterton -- Two films (Crime and punishment and The thirty-nine steps) -- Joyce's latest novel -- A pedagogy of hatred -- A comment on August 23rd, 1944 -- On William Beckford's Vathek -- An overwhelming film (Citizen Kane) -- Our poor individualism -- On Oscar Wilde -- The wall and the books -- The innocence of Layamon -- Coleridge's dream -- The enigma of Shakespeare -- Blindness.